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List of Roman agricultural deities, the Glossary

In ancient Roman religion, agricultural deities were thought to care for every aspect of growing, harvesting, and storing crops.^[1]

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Agent noun

In linguistics, an agent noun (in Latin, nomen agentis) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action.

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Agriculture in ancient Rome

Roman agriculture describes the farming practices of ancient Rome, during a period of over 1000 years.

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Aristaeus (Ἀρισταῖος Aristaios) was the mythological culture hero credited with the discovery of many rural useful arts and handicrafts, including bee-keeping; he was the son of the huntress Cyrene and Apollo.

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Augustan literature (ancient Rome)

Augustan literature refers to the pieces of Latin literature that were written during the reign of Caesar Augustus (27 BC–AD 14), the first Roman emperor.

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Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.

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Barbette Spaeth

Barbette Stanley Spaeth is an American academic who is an associate professor at College of William and Mary, and is an expert in Roman mythology.

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Bonus Eventus

Bonus Eventus ("Good Outcome") was a divine personification in ancient Roman religion.

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Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding, variously known as chestfeeding or nursing, is the process where breast milk is fed to a child.

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Ceres (mythology)

In ancient Roman religion, Ceres was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships.

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Consus

In ancient Roman religion, the god Consus was the protector of grains.

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Dryad

A dryad (Δρυάδες, sing.: Δρυάς) is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology.

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Faunus

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus was the rustic god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile, he was called Inuus.

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Flora (mythology)

Flora (Flōra) is a Roman goddess of flowers and spring.

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Georgics

The Georgics is a poem by Latin poet Virgil, likely published in 29 BCE.

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Glossary of ancient Roman religion

The vocabulary of ancient Roman religion was highly specialized. List of Roman agricultural deities and Glossary of ancient Roman religion are ancient Rome-related lists.

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Hellenization

Hellenization (also spelled Hellenisation) or Hellenism is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks.

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Hermann Usener

Hermann Karl Usener (23 October 1834 – 21 October 1905) was a German scholar in the fields of philology and comparative religion.

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Imporcitor

In Roman mythology Imporcitor was the deity of ploughing land with a wide furrow.

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Indigitamenta

In ancient Roman religion, the indigitamenta were lists of deities kept by the College of Pontiffs to assure that the correct divine names were invoked for public prayers. List of Roman agricultural deities and indigitamenta are Roman deities.

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Insitor

Insitor was, in Ancient Roman religion, a minor agricultural deity involved with the sowing of crops.

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Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.

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Jupiter (god)

Jupiter (Iūpiter or Iuppiter, from Proto-Italic *djous "day, sky" + *patēr "father", thus "sky father" Greek: Δίας or Ζεύς), also known as Jove (gen. Iovis), is the god of the sky and thunder, and king of the gods in ancient Roman religion and mythology.

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Liber

In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Liber ("the free one"), also known as Liber Pater ("the free Father"), was a god of viticulture and wine, male fertility and freedom.

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List of Roman deities

The Roman deities most widely known today are those the Romans identified with Greek counterparts (see interpretatio graeca), integrating Greek myths, iconography, and sometimes religious practices, into Roman culture, including Latin literature, Roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the Empire. List of Roman agricultural deities and List of Roman deities are ancient Rome-related lists.

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Luna (goddess)

In Sabine and ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon (Latin Lūna). She is often presented as the female complement of the Sun, Sol, conceived of as a god.

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Lympha

The Lympha (plural Lymphae) is an ancient Roman deity of fresh water.

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Manure

Manure is organic matter that is used as organic fertilizer in agriculture.

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Marcus Terentius Varro

Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) was a Roman polymath and a prolific author.

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Minerva

Minerva (Menrva) is the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy.

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Old Latin

Old Latin, also known as Early, Archaic or Priscan Latin (Classical lit), was the Latin language in the period roughly before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin.

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Pales

In ancient Roman religion, Pales was a deity of shepherds, flocks and livestock. List of Roman agricultural deities and Pales are Roman deities.

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Pan (god)

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan (Pán) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs.

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Proto-Indo-European language

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.

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Pyrrhic War

The Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC) was largely fought between the Roman Republic and Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, who had been asked by the people of the Greek city of Tarentum in southern Italy to help them in their war against the Romans.

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Quintus Fabius Pictor

Quintus Fabius Pictor (born BC, BC) was the earliest known Roman historian.

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Religion in ancient Rome

Religion in ancient Rome consisted of varying imperial and provincial religious practices, which were followed both by the people of Rome as well as those who were brought under its rule.

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Reparator

In Roman mythology, Reparator (or Rederator) was the deity of the preparing fallow land for crops.

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Res divina

In ancient Rome, res divinae, singular res divina (Latin for "divine matters," that is, the service of the gods), were the laws that pertained to the religious duties of the state and its officials.

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Robigalia

The Robigalia was a festival in ancient Roman religion held April 25, named for the god Robigus.

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Rumina

In ancient Roman religion, Rumina, Rumilia or Rumia, also known as Diva Rumina, was a goddess who protected breastfeeding mothers, and possibly nursing infants.

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Saturn (mythology)

Saturn (Sāturnus) was a god in ancient Roman religion, and a character in Roman mythology.

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Sementivae

Sementivae, also known as Feriae Sementivae or Sementina dies (in the country called Paganalia), was a Roman festival of sowing.

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Serritor

In Roman mythology, Saritor was the god of hoeing and weeding.

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Servius the Grammarian

Servius, distinguished as Servius the Grammarian (Servius or Seruius Grammaticus), was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian.

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Silvanus (mythology)

Silvanus (meaning "of the woods" in Latin) was a Roman tutelary deity of woods and uncultivated lands.

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Sol (Roman mythology)

Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion.

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Sterquilinus

In Roman mythology, Sterquilinus — also called Stercutus and Sterculius — was a god of odor.

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Terra (mythology)

In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Tellus Mater or Terra Mater ("Mother Earth") is the personification of the Earth.

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Triptolemus

Triptolemus (lit), also known as Buzyges, was a hero of Eleusis in Greek mythology, central to the Eleusinian Mysteries and is worshipped as the inventor and patron of agriculture.

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Tutilina

Tutilina (also Tutelina, Tutulina) was in Roman religion a tutelary goddess, apparently responsible for protecting crops brought in during harvest time.

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Venus (mythology)

Venus is a Roman goddess, whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.

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Vertumnus

In Roman mythology, Vertumnus (also Vortumnus or Vertimnus) is the god of seasons, change and plant growth, as well as gardens and fruit trees.

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Vervactor

In Roman mythology, Vervactor was the deity of ploughing fallow land.

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Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

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Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher

Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (12 February 1845, in Göttingen – 9 March 1923, in Dresden) was a German classical scholar.

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William Warde Fowler

William Warde Fowler (16 May 1847 – 15 June 1921) was an English historian and ornithologist, and tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_agricultural_deities

Also known as Hostilina, Lactans, Lactanus, Nodutus, Patelana, Runcina, Rurina, Rusina, Volutina.

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